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Kleeronomia, Vol. 18, Issue A, January 1986, 214 pages.

This volume of Kleronomia includes 5 interesting essays and a bibliographic bulletin (review and books’ presentation).

Chris Krikonis, in this biblical and patristic study, analyzes the Church’s mystery. He studies the meaning of the Church in the Old and New Testament, its expansion in the world and also its theological background. He concludes by analyzing the Church’s attributes (unity, sanctity, catholicity, apostolicity).

Athanasios Theocharis continues and completes in French his study (see Kleronomia 17, 1985) about the meaning of Sophiology in the book of Enoch in the Old Testament. The study is full of text collations, from spurious literary works.

George L.Kustas studies in English the issue of rhetoric art in Saint Gregory of Nyssa, by mentioning his correspondence with Eunomios. There are similar topics about the rhetoric art in the 16^th volume of Kleronomia (1984) by George Theodoroudis, regarding the rhetorical methodology of Eustathios of Thessaloniki.

George Theodoroudis, in his short text, studies the meaning of love (charity etc.), according to Saint Gregory Palamas.

John Kalogirou analyzes the mystery of the world’s salvation through the Church. The writer analyzes the basic theological elements about salvation, the interpretation of the uncreated energies, man’s acceptance of salvation, and the participation in salvation of the “universal world”.

Last follows a bibliographic bulletin with interesting books of this period.

Kleronomia, Vol. 18, Issue B, July 1986, 471 pages.

This volume of Kleronomia includes 7 theological essays and a bibliographic bulletin.

George Papadimitriou studies the effect of Jewish Moses Maimonides, known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, on the Western philosophy. His work was totally burnt by the Holly Inquisition, because it was judged by his opponents as “heretical”. His work was translated from Arabic to Hebrew and Latin. His philosophy constitutes a fusion of the logic of the Greek philosophy and the Jewish religious experience.

Demetrios Constantelos studies in English the ethics of the post byzantine period on the important questions of slavery and slaves.

Theodoros Giagou describes a manuscript of Sinai No 436 (411), concerning the Patriarch of Constantinople Kallinikos the 3^rd.

Archbishop Silas Koukiaris researches into various churches’ iconography, examining the gathering of the Apostles (Mistras, Mount Athos, Thessaly, Cyprus, etc.).

N.K. Moutsopoulos studies geographic and folklore elements of the   Castle of Logga, which was damaged in spring 1017 by Basil the 2^nd.

Kostas Ekonomou researches the architecture and the iconography of the church of Saint Nicolas in Vitsa Zagoriou (Ioannina).

Finally, Diane Toulianos-Banker gives us an index of musical manuscripts from the archive of the Institute of Patristic Studies (1975-today).

The Bibliographic Bulletin presents many books of this period.

Kleronomia, Vol. 19, Issues A and B, 1987, 337 pages.

This volume of Kleronomia includes 17 theological essays and a bibliographic bulletin. From this volume forward, the magazine is printed out in one single volume.

Evangelia Varella researches into the pedagogic proposals of Plato’s “Politeia”. These proposals are the memorization of speech -poetic and musical-, the social cohesion and the collective memory of the Nation. In “Politeia”, the education and the city’s governing are in the philosopher’s hands.

George Gavardinas studies the life and the work of Metropolitan of Kassandria Irenaeus (1863-1945).

GeorgeDion Dragas makes a patristic approach, in English, on the doctrine of creation. The Christological approach is in the centre of the whole study.

John Nik. Elioudis studies the life and the personality of monk Konstantinos of Domenikos, through the Code 80 of the Holy Abbey Olympiotissis, Archdiocese of Elassona, in the end of the 18^th century.

Athanasios K. Theocharis researches the meaning of the term “first born” (Luke. 2:7), which is used in a similar way by the Hellenist Jews of his time, in other words without excluding the meaning of “the only born son’’, as it happened in the epigraph of Arsenois (Leontoupolis, Egypt), whose son was undoubtedly the first and the only one.

JohanesKalogirou studies in German the preparation of the 7^thEcumenical Council (Nice, 787), the icons’ theology and its consequences for the liturgical tradition of the Church.

Metropolitan of Philadelphia Meliton Karas delivers the funeral speech of the unforgettable Metropolitan of Sardis Maximos.

Ninas Kiatypis studies the problem of locating the geographic area of Mount Sinai in the texts of the Old Testament. The distance from the Roman power, the tradition of the mountain’s sanctity and other reasons, made it a pole of attraction for the anchorites and a significant inquiring event.

Dimitra Koukoura studies the woman’s presence in the life of Saint Simeon the Fool for Christ and his theology for woman’s salvation.

GennadiosLimouris in his work “Is filioque a theological question”, answers with this study for the course of systematic theology.

John Moutzouris presents historical evident for the Metropolis of Mithymna on the island of Lesvos.

Metropolitan of Switzerland Damaskinos presents his thoughts regarding the end of the official theological dialogue between the Old-catholic and the Orthodox Church. The text is a speech at the end of the proceedings of the dialogue (12-19.10.1987, Kavala).

Athanasios (Papas), Metropolitan of Elioupolis and Thiron researches the Neo-Byzantine painting in Europe.

Chrysostom Savvatos (at present Metropolitan of Kalamata) studies in Italian the personality and the theological work of Patriarch Gregory Cyprian the 2^nd (1242-1289) and particularly his views on Filioque.

Basil Stavridis gives us historical elements for the Holy Monastery of Baloukli.

Dimitrios Tsamis provides information on the life and the Martyrdom of Saint Fevronia, based on the information given by Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople, whose entire life is presented in pages 230-270.

Archimandrite Tsoulkanakis of Naukration studies all the letters of Makarios Kalogeras addressed to the Patriarch Silvestros of Antioch, on pedagogical questions.

Finally follows a bibliographic bulletin, which presents many books of this period.